Author: Parker C. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaplains, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From Its European Antecedents to 1791
Author: Parker C. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaplains, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Chaplains of the Revolutionary War
Author: Jack Darrell CrowderPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476630712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
"There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight." With those words, the Rev. John Muhlenberg stepped from his pulpit, removed his clerical robe--revealing the uniform of a Colonial officer--and marched off to war. Many of the ministers who became chaplains in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War carried muskets while ministering to the spiritual needs of the troops. Their eyewitness accounts describe the battles of Lexington and Concord, life on a prison ship, the burning of New York City, the Battle of Rhode Island, the execution of Major Andre, and many other events.
From Its European Antecedents to 1791
Author: Parker C. ThompsonNew Men
Author: Thomas A. FosterPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814727816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
'New Men' considers the conditions of early America which shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity.
From Its European Antecedents to 1791
Author: Parker C. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military chaplains
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Department of the Army Historical Summary
Author: Center of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
The Army Chaplaincy
Author: Serving Two Masters
Author: Richard M. BuddPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496203682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Chaplain Richard M. Budd has made a welcome, concise, well written and researched contribution to an overlooked chapter in chaplain history. Anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of how the professional and fully institutionalized chaplaincy of today's military came about would do well by consulting Budd's book." --Bradley L. Carter, On Point. Military chaplains have a long and distinguished tradition in the United States, but historians have typically ignored their vital role in ministering to the needs of soldiers and sailors. Richard M. Budd corrects this omission with a thoughtful history of the chaplains who sought to create a viable institutional structure for themselves within the U.S. Army and Navy that would best enable them to minister to the fighting men. Despite the chaplaincy's long history of accompanying American armies into battle, there has never been consensus on its role within the military, among the churches, or even among chaplains themselves. Each of these constituencies has had its own vision for chaplains, and these ideas have evolved with changing social conditions and military growth. Moreover, chaplains, acting as members of one profession operating within the specific environment of another, raised questions of whether they could or should integrate themselves into the military. In effect they had to learn to serve two institutional masters, the church and the government, simultaneously. Budd provides a history of the struggle of chaplains to professionalize their ranks and to obtain a significant measure of autonomy within the military's bureaucratic structure--always with the ultimate goal of more efficiently bringing their spiritual message to the troops.
The Fighting Rabbis
Author: Albert I. SlomovitzPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Fighting Rabbis details the compelling history of Jewish military chaplains from their first service during the Civil War to the first female Jewish chaplain and the rabbinic role in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Rabbi Slomovitz, himself a Navy chaplain, opens a window onto the fieldwork, religious services, counseling, and dramatic battlefield experiences of Jewish military chaplains throughout our nation's history.
Religion on the Battlefield
Author: Ron E. HassnerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703692
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
How does religion shape the modern battlefield? Ron E. Hassner proposes that religion acts as a force multiplier, both enabling and constraining military operations. This is true not only for religiously radicalized fighters but also for professional soldiers. In the last century, religion has influenced modern militaries in the timing of attacks, the selection of targets for assault, the zeal with which units execute their mission, and the ability of individual soldiers to face the challenge of war. Religious ideas have not provided the reasons why conventional militaries fight, but religious practices have influenced their ability to do so effectively. In Religion on the Battlefield, Hassner focuses on the everyday practice of religion in a military context: the prayers, rituals, fasts, and feasts of the religious practitioners who make up the bulk of the adversaries in, bystanders to, and observers of armed conflicts. To show that religious practices have influenced battlefield decision making, Hassner draws most of his examples from major wars involving Western militaries. They include British soldiers in the trenches of World War I, U.S. pilots in World War II, and U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hassner shows that even modern, rational, and bureaucratized military organizations have taken—and must take—religious practice into account in the conduct of war.